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A00214	Articles to be enquired of vvithin the diocesse of London In the third trienniall visitation of the Right Honourable, and Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of London, Lord High Treasurer of England. Holden in the yeare of our Lord God, 1640; Visitation articles. 1640	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1633-1660 : Juxon); Juxon, William, 1582-1663.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1640 (1640)	STC 10267; ESTC S101627	23,004	28

be disposed may come to heare Gods Word and to pray with him Especially Is the Common Prayer said or sung distinctly and rev●rently upon such dayes as are appointed to be kept holy and upon their E●es Is the same said or sung at convenient and usu●ll times of those dayes and in such pl●ce of every Church as the people may be most edified thereby And doth the Pars●n U●car or Curate observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer as well in reading the holy Scripture and saying of prayers a● in administration of the Sacraments without either diminishing in regard of Preaching or in any other respect or adding any thing in the matter and forme thereof 2 Doth the Minister reade the Psalmes and Lessons appointed in the Kalendar for Morning and Evening Prayer And at the end of every Psalme throughout the yeare and likewise at the end of the Benedictus Benedicite Magnificat and Nunc dimittis doth he repeate Glory be to the Father c. And at the reading of the Lessons doth he stand and turne him so as he may best be heard of all such as be present And is the Creed called Athanasius Creed beginning with Whosoever will be saved said by your Minister constantly at the times appointed in the Common Prayer booke and doth your Minister sing or say any other Psalmes or Hymns other then aforesaid in the place of those contrary to Law 3 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate say the Letanie on every Sunday duely throughout the yeare as also upon all Wednesdayes and Fridaies weekely though they be not holy-dayes In what convenient place of your Church or Chappell doth hee say the same and by whom was that place appointed Doth hee say the same at the accustomed houres of Service and is there warning giuen to the people by the tolling of a Bell And doth euery house-holder dwelling within halfe a mile of the Church come or send one at the least of his houshold to ioyne with the Minister 4 Doth your Minister read the Communion Service or the second Service on every Sunday and Holyday throughout the yeare though● there bee no Communion according as it is appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer 5 Doth your Parson re●ide upon his Bene●●ce or not If yea then being a licensed Preacher doth he preach one Sermon every Sunday in the yeare in his owne Cure or in some Church or Chappell neare adioyning having no lawfull impediment And being not a licensed Preacher doth he offer at any time to preach or expound the Scriptures or rather doth he procure Sermons to bee Preache● in his Cure once every moneth at the least by Preachers which bee lawfully licensed If he be licensed by the Lawes of this Realme not to reside upon his Benef●ce then in that Case doth he supply his cure by one that is a sufficient and Licensed Preacher And is your Curate allowed to serve there by the Bishop of the Diocesse or by the Ordinary of the place having Episcopall iurisdiction and by no other 6 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate upon every Sunday and holy-day throughout the yeare when there is no Sermon reade one of the Homilies set forth by publike Authority Doth he use to read the same in the Pulpit only according as he is required in the Canons of the yeare 1571. And doth your Minister as well before the Homilie as before his Sermon move and exhort the people ●o ioyne with him in Prayer according to the forme laid downe in the book of Canons and doth hee use any other forme then is there prescribed 7 Have you in your Parish besides your Parson Uicar and Curate any Lecturer or Lecturers not having cure of soules therein Doth your Lecturer use before his Lectures the forme of prayer before remembred and no other forme And doth he twice at the least every yeare read the Divine Service on two severall Sundaies both in the fore-noone and afternoone publikely and at the usuall times and doth he as oft in every yeare administer the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper in such manner and form and with the observation of such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed in the book of Common Prayer 8 Doe your Lecturer or Lecturers preach in their Gownes and not in their Cloaks according to his Maiesties Instructions An. 1629. Doth he professe his willingnesse to take upon him a Living with cure of soules in that place or Parish in the which he Lectures or elsewhere And doth he actually take such Cure or Benef●ce if any hath beene offered to him 9 Is your Lecturer licensed by the Bishop of the Diocesse And doth your Lecturer or any other Preacher that Lectureth or preacheth in your Church or Chappell impugne or confute any Doctrine formerly delivered in the same or in any Church neare adioyning before hee hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocesse therewith and received order from him what to doe in that case for the avoiding of dissention 10 Doth your Lecturer conforme himselfe to the Lawes Ordinances and Rites Ecclesiasticall established in the Church of England If not you are to certifie the same unto the Bishop of the Diocesse or other Ordinary of the place to the end that if the said Lecturer doe not conforme himselfe after admonition his Licence may be voided and himselfe removed 11 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate administer the Communion in your Church or Chappell so often and at such times as every parishioner may communicate at least thrice in the yeare whereof the Feast of Easter to be one And doth he give warning to his parishioners publikely in the Church at Morning prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of themselves And doe such as purpose to communicat● signifie their minds unto the ●urate over night or the morning early 12 Doth your Minister admit to the receiving of the holy Communion such of his Cure which be openly knowne to live in sinne notorious without repentance or any who have openly or maliciously contended with their neighbours and will not be induced by him to a reconcilement Or any Church-wardens or Sidemen who having taken oath to present to their Ordinaries every such publike offence as they are particularly charged to enquire of in their severall parishes shall wittingly incurre the horrible crime of periurie 13 Doth he wittingly administer the same to any but to such as kneel or to any that refuse to bee present at the publike prayers or to any that bee common and notorious depravers of the booke of Common-prayer or of any thing contained in the Booke of Articles agreed upon in the Convocation Anno 1562. Or in the booke of Ordering Priests and Bishops or to any that hath spoken against and depraved his Maiesties Soveraigne Authority in causes Ecclesiasticall except such persons doe first acknowledge to the Minister before you

the Church-wardens that hee is sorry for the same and promise either by word of mouth or under his hand to doe so no more 14 Is the bread provided for the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper of the best and purest white-bread that may conveniently be gotten Doth the Minister take the same into his hands to blesse and consecrate it to that holy use as oft as he administreth the Communion Doth he so likewise with the wine provided And if any bread or wine bee newly brought doth he first use the words of the Institution before it be distributed to the Communicants 15 Doth your Minister as oft as he celebrateth the Communion receive the Sacrament first in both kindes himselfe and having so received the same doth he severally deliver the bread and wine to every Communicant in their ha●ds knéeling And at his delivery of the same doth hee reherse the whole forme mentioned in the Communion Booke saying The body of our Lord Iesus Christ c. or doth he only use some part thereof as he list himselfe 16 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate administer the Communion at any time publikely in the congregation except there be foure or three at the least to communicate with him Doth he administer the same to any strangers which come often and commonly from their owne Parish Churches And doe you the Church-wardens give notice to your Minister of such strangers that so hee may remit them home to their owne Parish Churches there to Communicate with their owne Minister and neighbours 17 Doth your Minister except it be in times and cases of necessity Preach or administer the holy Communion in any private house in which there is no Chappell dedicated and allowed by the Ecclesiasticall lawes of this Kingdome Doth any Chaplaine living within your parish preach or administer the Communion in any other place then in the Chappell of the said houses Doth the Lords and Masters of such Chaplaines or houses at other times resort to their owne Parish Churches and there receive the holy Communion at least once in the yeare And doe any under Noble men and men qualified by law keepe any private Chaplaine in their house or houses 18 Doth your Minister refuse or delay to Christen any child that is brought to him to the Church on Sundayes or Holy-dayes knowledge thereof being given to him over night or in the morning before Morning prayer Doth hee proceed therein in all things according to the forme of publike Baptisme in the Common prayer Booke doth he neglect refuse or pretermit at any time to signe the child baptized with the signe of the crosse or doth hee admit the parent of a childe to answer as a Godfather to his own childe or any other person to be a Godfather or Godmother before the said pers●n so undertaking hath received the holy Communion 19 Doth your Minister being duly informed of the weaknesse and danger of death of any infant unbaptized in his Parish and being thereupon desired to goe unto the place and baptize the same either wilfully refuse to d●e it or negligently delay the time so that the child departeth without Baptisme ●hrough his def●ult if the childe so baptized doe recover afterwards is it brought into the Church by the Godfathers and Godmothers to the intent the congregation may bee certified of the Baptizing thereof according to the ●orme prescribed in the Common prayer Book 20 Doth your Minister having Cure and charge of ●oules doe his best endeavour to prepare children and make them ready for confirmation And to that end doth hee on every Sunday and Holyday before Evening prayer for the space of halfe an houre or more instruct the youth and ignorant persons of the parish according 〈◊〉 the Catechisme set forth in the Common prayer booke And are the afternoone Sermons in your● parish if you had any formerly turned into Catechising by way of questions and answers according to the Kings Instructions 21 Doth your Minister either bring or send in writing to the Bishop of the Diocesse the names of all those Children of his parish which can answer to the questions contained in the Catechisme that by the imposition of hands and prayer they may receive strength and defence against temptation And doth he admit any person or persons to y● holy Comm●nion untill such time as he or they can orderly say the catechisme and be confirmed 22 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate celebrate Matrimony betwixt any persons without a facultie or Licence granted by authority Lawfull or without the Banes of Matrimony first published on three severall Sundayes or Holydayes in the parish Church or Chappell where the said parties dwell or at the times by Law prohibited without speciall Licence Or doth he celebrate the same in any other place than in the Church or in the Church at any other time than betweene the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoone and at that time betwixt such persons as are under the age of twenty one yeares without the consent of their parents signifie● unto him or a Licence granted to him so to doe 23 Doth your Minister in the solemnizing of holy Matrimony keepe himselfe to the forme and Ceremonies prescribed in the Common Prayer booke doth he at any time marry any without a King or without going to the Lords Table as it is appointed Doth he in case there bee no Sermon read those Texts of Scripture wherein the offices of man and wife are declared according as it is prescribed And doe the new married persons the same day of their marriage receive the holy Communion as by Law they ought 24 Doth your Minister or Curate resort to such of your parish as are dangerously sick if the disease be n●t probably suspected to be infectious to instruct and comfort them in that distresse doth hee exhort the sick party to be in charity with all the world and to dispose of his goods and declare his debts and doth he move him and that most earnestly to liberalitie towards the poore and to unburden his conscience 25 If any sick person finde his conscience troubled with anyweighty matter and doth unburden the same to his Priest or Minister doth the said Priest or Minister give him absolution according to the forme prescribed And have you ever heard that the said Priest or Minister hath revealed and made knowne at any time to any person whatsoever any crime or ●ffence committed to his trust and secrecy either in case of such extremity or any other case whatsoever except they be such crimes as by the lawes of this Realme the life of the sai● Priest or Minister ma●●e called in questi●n for concealing of it declare the name of the offender when and by whome you heare the ●ame 26 Doth the Curate that ministreth in your parish upon convenient notice giuen him

administer the Communion unto such as be dangerously sicke and not able to come unto the Church and yet are desirous to receive the same in their houses and are unquiet for he lack thereof Or doth hee obstinately and wilfully refuse so to doe being thereunto required and finding all things necessary for the doing of it 27 Doth your minister refuse or delay to bury any corps that is brought into the Church or Church-yard convenient warning being given him before except the partie deceased were denounced excommunicate for some grievous crime Majori Excommunicatione and no man able to testifie of his repentance And doth he do it decently and gravely not swerving from the forme prescribed by the Church in the Common prayer booke 28 Doth any woman in your parish after her delivery from the paines and perill of Childbirth refuse to come into the Church to render thanks to God for so great a mercy Doth she goe thither covered with a decent veil according to the laudable and ancient custome And being come doth she goe n●ere unto the place where the Table standeth and offereth her accustomed offerings And doth your Minister doe his dutie in churching the said women according to the forme prescribed And doth the woman that commeth to give her tha●kes receive the holy Communion if there by any 29 Doth your Minister at and upon seasonable times especially on the first day of Lent cause the people to bee called together and assembled in the Church by the ringing of a Bell And being drawne together doth hee read unto them the commination against sinners with the other prayers appointed Concerning the Clergie their Duty Carriage c. DOth your Parson Uicar Curate or Lecturer if you have any purely and syncerely teach manifest and declare foure times every yeare at the least in his Sermons and other Collations and Lectures that all usurped and forraigne power is for most iust cau●es taken away and abolished and that therefore no obedience or subiection within his Maiesties Realmes and Dominions is due unto any such forraigne power And doth he preach the Doctrine of obedience and the Kings authority according to the Canons published and set out by the late holy Synod Anno 1640. 2 Doth your Minister declare to the parishioners every Sunday at the time appointed in the Communion booke whether there be any Holy-dayes or fasting-dayes in the following weeke And doth hee call upon them to observe the same according to the Lawes of the Land and of holy Church 3 Doth your Minister or Curate in the Rogation dayes goe in perambulation about your parish saying and using the Psalmes and suffrages by Law appointed as viz. Psalme 103. 104. the Letany and suffrages together with the Homily set out for that end and purpose Doth hee admonish the people to give thankes to God if they see any likely hopes of plenty and to call upon him for his mercy if there be any feare of scarcitie And doe you the Churchwardens assist him in it 4 Doth your Curate serve more then one Church or Chappell upon one day except the said Chappell be a member of the parish Church or united thereto How farre distant are the said Churches or Chappels which he serveth from one another What wages hath he for his paines 5 Doth your Minister if he be commanded by the Ordinary openly on some Sunday denounce and declare for excommunicate all those who either for refusing to frequent the divine service of the Church or for notorious contumacie or other notable crimes stand lawfully excommunicated by the lawes of the Church that others thereby may bee admonished to refraine their Companies And doth your Minister himselfe refraine the company of persons excommunicated and so denounced 6 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate usually weare such apparell as is prescribed by the Canon that is to say a gowne with standing colla● and wide sleeves straite at the hands and a square cap Or doth hee go● at any time abroade in his dublet and ho●e without coat or cassock or doth he use to weare any light coloured stockings doth he weare any ●oi●e and wrought nightcaps or only plaine night-caps of silke sattin or velvet And in his iourneying doth he usually weare a cloake with sleeves commonly called the Priests cloak without guards we●ts long buttons or cuts 7 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate resort at any time other then for his honest necessities to any Tavernes or Ale●ouses or doth your Curate lodge or board in any such places Doe they or either of them give themselves to any base or servile labour or to drinking or Riot or to playing at di●e cards or tables or to an● other unlawfull game or games or doe they otherwise spend their time idly by day or by night 8 Is there any in your Parish who having beene a Deacon or Minister hath voluntaryly relinquished his calling and doth u●e himselfe in the course of his li●e as a lay man what are their names that have forsaken their said callinge 9 Doth your Minister if he be a Preacher and thought fit by your Bishop having any popish Recusant or Recusants in his parish labour diligently with them from time to time thereby to reclaime them from their errours And if he be n● Preacher or not such a Preacher doth hee procure some that are Preachers so qualified to take paines with them to that purpose 10 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate carefully informe himselfe every yeare how many popish Recusants men woemen and children above the age of thirteene yeares or being otherwise popishly given are inhabitants within their parish or parishes or make their abode there either as soiourners or common guests 11 Doth your Minister every Sunday weekly if there be occasion in the presence of you the Churchwardens write and record in the Register-booke the names of all persons christened together with the names and surnames of their parents as also the names and surnames of all persons married and buried in that parish the weeke before and the day and ●eare of every such Christening Marriage and Burial and unto every page therof when it is fild do you and your said Minister subscribe your names And is a true coppie of the said Christnings Marriages and Burials subscribed with the names of your Minister and you the Churchwardens transmit●ed yearely within one moneth after the 25 of March unto the Bishop of the Dio●esse to be preserved in his Registry 12 Doth your Minister in the parish Church or Chappell where ●ee hath charge reade the Canons Orders and Constitutions agreed on in the Synod held at London Anno 1603. once every yeare upon some Sundayes or Holydayes in the afternoone before Divine Service and doth he so divide the same as the one halfe may be read one day and the other halfe the other day Whether hath your Minister Churchwardens and Sidemen presented unto the

ARTICLES TO BE ENQUIRED OF Within the Diocesse of LONDON In the third Trienniall Visitation Of the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in GOD WILLIAM Lord Bishop of LONDON Lord High Treasurer of ENGLAND Holden in the Yeare of our LORD GOD 1640 LONDON Printed by RICHARD BADGER M.DC.XL The Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Sworn-men YOu shall sweare that you and every of you shall diligently enquire of the Articles given you in charge and without any affection favour 〈◊〉 hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person you shall present all and every such person and persons that now is or ●f late was within your Parish as hath committed any incest adultery fornication or simony and any misdemeanour or disturbances committed or made in any Church or Ch●ppell in time of Common Prayer Preaching or Divine Service there used to the disturbance thereof and also that have committed or done any other offence fault or default presentable in the E●clesiasticall Court according to the Articles now delivered to you Wherein you shall deale uprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and ●o conceale the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine the truth and suppresse vice So helpe you God and the Contents of this Booke Articles to be enquired of within the Diocesse of LONDON in the Visitation to be holden in the Yeare of our LORD 1640. Concerning Religion and the true worship of God In This Realme established IS there any who doth affirme teach that the 39 Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops in b●th Provinces and the whole Clergie in the Convocation h●lden at London Anno 1562. are in any part superstitio●s or 〈◊〉 or such as hée may not with a good conscience subscribe unto Who is that so teacheth or affirmeth and what is his name 2 Is there any who doth affirme and ●ea●h that the forme of Gods worship in the Church of ●●gland established by the Law and contai●●d in the booke of Common ●rayer and administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitio●s 〈◊〉 unlawfull worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is rep●g●●nt to the Scriptures Who is it that so teacheth c. 3 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Rites and Ceremo●ies of the Church of England by Law established are wicked antichristian or superstitious or such as being commanded by lawfull Authoritie ●ay not with good cons●ience ●ee approved used or subscribed unto by men who are zealously and godly affected who is it c 4 Is there any that separateth himselfe from the Communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles Rules in the Church of England and c●mbine themselves together in a new brother-hood accounting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine Governement ●ites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to be prophane or unmeet for him to ioyne within Christian profession who are they that so separa●e ●●mselves and what are their names Concerning the Church the Governement Authoritie and Discipline thereof 1 IS there any who doth affirme or teach that the Church of England by Law established under the Kings Maiestie is not a true and Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles Who is it that doth so affirme and teach c 2 Is there any who doth affirme and teach that the Governement of the Church of England under his Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and the rest that beare office in the same is antichristian and repugnant to the Word of God Who is it that doth c. 3 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the formes or manner of making and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are made Bishops Priests and Deacons in that forme are not lawfully made nor ought to be accounted either by themselves or others to be truly either Bishops Priests or Deacons untill they have some other calling unto those Divine Offices Who is it c. 4 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Church hath no power to decree Rites or Ceremonies nor any authoritie in Controversies of Faith or in the changing abolishing of Ceremonies and R●tes of the Church ordained only by mans authority contrary to the 20. and 34. Articles of the Church of England Who is it c. 5 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Kings Maiestie hath not the same Authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall that the godly Kings had among the Iewes and Christian Emperours in the Primitive Church Or that the Kings Maiestie within his Realmes of England Scotland and Ireland and all other his Dominions and Countries is not the highest Power under God to whom all men as well Inhabitants as bor●e within the same doe by Gods law owe most loyaltie and obedience Or that impeach any part his Royall Supremacie in the said causes restored to the Crowne and by the Lawes of the Realme therein established Who is it c 6 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that no manner of person eith●r of the Clergie or Laitie are to be subiect to the Decrees and Constitutions of the Church in causes Ecclesiasticall made and ratified by the Kings Maiesties Supreme authoritie other then such as are particularly assembled in the sacred Synods of the Church for the making of the said Decrees and Constitutions and have given their voices to the same Who is it c 7 Is there any that doth affirme or teach that it is lawfull for any sort of Ministers and lay persons or either of them to ioyne together and make rules orders and Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority or any that submit themselves to be ruled and Governed by the same Who is it c 8 Is there any who doth affirme teach maintaine or publish that such Ministers who refuse to subscribe to the forme and manner of Gods worship in the Church of England and their adherents may truly take unto them the name of another Church or that there are within this Realme other meetings assemblies or congregations of the Kings borne Subiects then such as by the lawes of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly chalenge to themselves the name of true and lawfull Churches Who is it that doth so affirme c 9 Doth any Minister or Ministers without the Licence and direction of the Bishop of the Diocesse first obtained appoint or keep any solemne Fasts publikely or in any private houses other then such as are or shall be appointed by lawfull authoritie or not being Licensed as afore is said presumes to appoint or hold any meeting for Sermons Sermon Lectures